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- A documentary about regular Norwegian drug users and their untold stories of discrimination.
- In 2015 Ingrid collapsed backstage during a fashion show. We followed her through a dramatic year with ups and downs, and got an up-close and personal insight to her daily struggle living with Crohn's disease.
- Petter Nyquist's TV series about his 52 days on the streets of Oslo touched an entire nation. In this film (Homeless - 52 days on the streets of Oslo), we get to meet again several of those we became acquainted with in the TV series, including Svein, and we also get to see how things have gone with Petter's friends on the street.
- This is the story behind the myth about a group of forgotten snowboard heroes, told in a heartfelt and enthusiastic way by the protagonists themselves. A film about a group of complete unknowns becomes proof that everything is possible, while at the same time being a melancholic reminder that nothing lasts forever.
- Norwegian Gay and Lesbian rights pioneer Karen-Christine (Kim) Friele and her lover Wenche Lowzow led the LGBT+ fight in the 1970's and today Norway is one of the most liberal country in the world.
- The film chronicles the life of author Thorvald Steen, who suffers from facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy; a rare waste disorder that gradually and irreversibly paralyzes his body. The disease, however, has never stopped Thorvald. He is still an active public debater, freedom of speech advocate, author and cultural communicator, although his ski jumping days are over. Through Thorvald's own wonderful sense of humor and storytelling abilities, the film paints an intimate and poetic picture of an unusual life and the man who's still very much enjoying it. The well-known Norwegian photographer Per Maning has followed Thorvald with his camera for 25 years and documented Thorvald's development. The result is a unique and rare portrait of the meaning of life.
- Five young Media-students travel to Lillestrøm, Norway to take part in game-festival GIGACON 15 as crew-members.
- Lars Monsen travels across Canada, encountering wildlife around every corner.
- Three meetings with dementia. Jan, Mimi and Sigvald have different kinds of dementia or Alzheimers' disease. How does this affect their lives and the search for words, memories and items and how does it effect their nearest? What can help?
- Performer Runar Gudnason, best known from the group Side Brok, travels back in time to find out why he became a rapper.
- In August 2015, skydiver Dennis Kakis is doing his 260th jump when a sudden gust makes him lose control and crash-lands; he breaks his back and is paralyzed from the waist down. Refusing to accept his new limited life, he reacts by documenting his own journey toward his next role: to get back on his feet to jump again.
- A docudrama about the sisters Anne & Alet who killed several women with poison in the late 18th century. They were finally caught and judged to death by beheading.
- Per 'Parker' Andreassen had every opportunity to do what he wanted with his life. After experimenting with hard drugs in his youth, he gradually and unwillingly became one of northern Norway's most famous characters. Famous for all the wrong things like drugfueled obnoxious behavior, mental issues and criminal activity. A career that lasted for 40 years where he was either stigmatized, feared and hated by most people in his local society. Every society in the world has characters like Per. Everyone knows about them and has heard stories about them, but few really knows them. 'Parked' is a portrait of him and his last living years, where we get to know him and get to explore the human behind the character. It's a humane portrait that shows the dangers of experimenting with hard drugs and at the same time shows that the outcasts of society also has a story to tell. I started developing this project in 2013 and due to Pers bad health condition, I started filming that very summer. We kept filming on and off in 1,5 years until filming was stopped by Pers death. The film premiered at Tromsø International Filmfestival and became on of the most popular films at the festival. All screenings where sold in few hours after tickets went on sale. It was seen by approx. 3500 people.
- In a small Norwegian town, a group of pensioners are breaking all boundaries, putting on a record breaking cabaret show with thousands attending. With only 6 months to go and the death of the star from last year, will they make it in time?
- Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
- A romantic drama about three couples and their difficult relationships in different stages of life: Kristina and Philip are 16 years old, Line and Jens are 30 years old, Signe and Geir are 60 years old.
- Kråkrohamn, In a fjord on an island far to the north. Five brothers have shared good and bad days on the family farm together as mother and father. The fisherman wants life as it has always been, while the goat farmer Idar dreams of love.
- As a little boy Per Arvid promises to keep quiet about a secret. It's the secret of the abuse on the farm. After 20 years, the secrets must be dug up again. It almost kills him.
- Cechell Oftedal was a street child in Manila, with her drug addicted father. She came to Norway at the age of 14, and later became a manager and founder of a charity organization. What did it feel like to sleep in a bed for the first time?
- Villains are on their way to the idyllic western town of Megatown, hoping to get their hands on the magical herbs the residents grow which give everyone such a wonderful singing voice. Will they be able to resist the attack?
- In Los Angeles, a Norwegian cab driver has one of his own countrymen as a passenger. The passenger changes everything for him in the most terrible and unexpected way.
- At an isolated outpost in the Arctic, the pioneering spirit of the Space Race clashes with the suspicions of the Cold War.
- A story of an incredible girl and her cancer battle. She was just 26 when she died. Diagnosis falls on her like a lightning from the sky just 7 weeks after she starts an exciting life in NYC. She is the precursor of the #sjekkdeg (checkyourself) campaign that has saved hundreds of women from cancer. Thea and her family are brave and strong people. This document is touching, difficult , inspiring, full of love, laugh, tears, hope and thoughts. But most of all it puts life and existance into a perspective. We should cherish every moment on this earth. All the love to Steen family.
- Max and Sofia have graduated from their kindergartens. Their first step into a more adult world is when they start primary school. This film captures intimate details of Norwegian children adjusting to the school system.
- Reodor Felgen decides that he will enter a car race to defeat his former friend who has stolen his plans for a car.
- We get the story of how Halvdan Sivertsen went from radical and narrow artist - to common property, hit-maker and entertainer. The story is crudely and humorously conveyed by Halvdan himself, with 30 of his songs.
- The story of Rosenborg is the story of a club that broke all barriers by becoming one of the world's best football teams in the 1990s.
- In 1998, the Norwegian author, Stig Saeterbakken decided to write a novel in one week. Neighbor and director Morten Hovland was allowed to film the project, which became not just about the act of writing the novel Sauermugg, but also involves the authors thoughts on philosophy, literature, art and life in general. Stig Saeterbakken died on January 25Th 2012, and as such this film serves as a rare portrait of one of the most assured and uncompromising voices of contemporary Norwegian literature.
- Samuel Steinmann is the last living survivor of the Norwegian Jews who were deported to Auschwitz in the Fall of 1942. In The Tram To Auschwitz, Sammy makes that journey again, and the film follows him, merging the present with the past, and his account with the latest historical research.
- The unknown story about the Jewish orphanage, run by Nina Hasvold in Oslo during WW2, which saved a lot of lives, and about the flight from holocaust to neutral Sweden in 1942.
- Heedless is a documentary film about Norwegian extreme skier Dennis Risvoll. He is not your run-of-the-mill skier, he's very superstitious and he prefers to not give attention to the things that could be his demise.
- «No more everyday life» is a story without the traditional WW2 heroes, but two young women who were in love with life, the world and each other, and, as Gunvor Hofmo later expressed: «Did not know that such evil existed». Now they seem like modern human beings, who fought to take care of and protect the core of being human, but at a high price. In this documentary we follow in their footsteps, examining the ideas behind Hitler's racial state, and how this pursued them and lead to Ruth Maier being arrested and killed. As Gunvor Hofmo wrote in a poem: «If we should ever forget: It is on their ashes we tread.» Hofmo's fate was not to forget, but to try to turn the pain into poetry, and to preserve Ruth Maier's writing.
- A local news station has in interest to create a reality program featuring local students from the community. Things does not go as planned, as the students seem to hate each other, and a civil war is on the breaking point within the classroom. How long can Thomas, Sara and Petter withstand the hate from the fellow students? Trouble is brewing.
- In a galaxy far, far away. - but not really. It is a time of conflict. Math teacher David Dudek, along with Sigurd and Ørjan have been kidnapped by General Grevost, but hey, it is David. Getting out of there will be no problem.
- Mads Ousdal discovers as an adult that his babysitter at one time was Norway's most hated man after a national crisis in the 1960s. Was the babysitter a criminal, or was he used as a scapegoat to save Norway's most powerful politician?
- With 2 Olympic gold medals, 5 world championships and 36 world cup race wins - Aksel Lund Svindal is one of the greatest alpine skiers in history. But does being great in one category give you an edge in another?
- Two special soldiers relives Jan Baalsrud's miraculous flight from the Nazi's during harsh winter, when he survived and after the war became famous as the man with nine lives, known through the films Nine Lives (1957) and 12th Man (2017).
- Exposing the true face of the fur industry
- I 2012 Syrian Maher and his family emigrated from the war to rural Meldal in Norway. He does everything he can to learn the language and be a part of his new community, getting a job, but he has higher dreams.
- The Red Apple follows different people through different situations, and gives a unique view into a world few of us have experienced. A place where every day is a struggle for survival, where hugs are worth their weight in gold. A fight for acceptance. A workplace where your colleagues may not be alive the next day.
- Warm-hearted, honest and passionate about equality and belonging. Ola is 30 years old and lives with many different people in the village of Vidaråsen in Vestfold. Here they live close to nature, at a slower pace and the small community is founded on inclusion, understanding and respect. Ola is a committed, funny and honest guy. He has a mild developmental disability and talks openly and with wonder about this. When Ola loses an important piece in his life, he reflects on life and what he can do to become more independent. "Ola - a very ordinary unusual guy" is a heartwarming film about equality, belonging and the importance of feeling safe enough to be who you are. It is a close and honest portrait, which helps to break down the distinction between "us" and "them".
- Three young men in the 25-year old yacht, Berserk goes to the Antarctic. The captain is Jarle Andhøy from Norway and the crew is David Meisel from the USA and Manuel Fernandez from Argentina, neither of whom have sailed before.
- A small farm is about to change hands into a new generation, from father to daughter. A film about traditions, knowing when it's time to go on, to inherit, and other of life's big questions.
- He was an anarchist and provocateur. Underground filmmaker and a cheeky fuck. Several of today's veterans in the Norwegian film industry started their career with him. Yet there are few today who know Bredo Greve. In Bredo Greve - filmrebell you will get to know the filmmaker's marvelous film history. Greve was always ready for a good fight, and he used the film to pinpoint problems in society, that still is intimidating relevant.
- 25 Norwegian men in a men's choir are rehearsing for their biggest gig ever: Warming up for Black Sabbath. But at the same time their conductor is dying from cancer.
- A ski documentary showcasing modern freeskiing, free riding and snowboarding.
- A serious and terminal diagnosis changes filmmaker Petter Vennerøds life abruptly. He wants you to join him on his last film journey - but it's urgent. The illness in his head is taking his words and thoughts.